Hansen Christopher S, Peeters Els, Cami Jan, Schmidt Timothy W
School of Chemistry, UNSW, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia.
Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, N6A 3K7, Canada.
Commun Chem. 2022 Aug 10;5(1):94. doi: 10.1038/s42004-022-00714-3.
It has been a great joint achievement of astronomy, laboratory spectroscopy and quantum chemistry to identify interstellar molecules in various astronomical environments and piece together their origins story from the fragmented evidence. Here the authors provide a sketch of what we know and motivate the asking of open questions on carbon-based molecules in space.
在各种天文环境中识别星际分子,并从零散的证据中拼凑出它们的起源故事,这一直是天文学、实验室光谱学和量子化学的一项重大共同成就。在此,作者概述了我们所了解的情况,并激发人们对太空中碳基分子提出开放性问题。